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SUBJECT STATEMENTS OF MANOLA’RAY, EXILE LEAOER DATE DISTR. 24 ocroper 1961
OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT . .
PRECEDENCE ROUTINE
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APPRAISAL FIELD REPORT NO. f'0£L 430,995
OURCE GRADINGS ARE DEFINITIVE, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

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1, MANOLO RAY, EXILE LEADER OF MOVIMIENTO REVOLUCIONARIO
DEL PUEBLO (MRP - PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY OVEMEN SAID IN-
EARLY OCTOBER THAT HE WAS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO. ANY “TRYAS ION OF CUBA,
INSISTING THAT CASTRO‘S OVERTHROW WAS TO Bx gtHIEVED BY INTERNAL
RESISTANCE AND THIS HAD ALREADY STARTED. S oe
2. THE MRP WAS ORGANIZED THROUGHOUT ue ISLAND AND SUPPORTED "
BY ALL CLASSES OF THE POPULATION, IT re MEMBERS IN ALL 33
TRADE UNIONS, THE G-2, MILITIA ANDPTEROUGHOUT THE ADMINISTRATION.
_ RAY ESTIMATED 8o. PERCENT: OF POPULATION WERE OFPOSED TO CASTRO, ‘
THOUGH MAJORITY WE er Agiveny SO, HE CONSIDERED THE MRP AT

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